Microsoft 365 admin center: Send users Edge adoption emails

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 22, 2021 Microsoft Edge 0 Comments

We’ll be adding a feature titled “Get fast, secure browsing with Microsoft Edge”, on the Setup page in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This feature will let admins send a promotional email to encourage the adoption of Microsoft Edge. It will also provide the option to include instructions to turn on security and performance features in Microsoft Edge.
More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/microsoft-edge-feature-coming-to-microsoft-365-admin-center/ba-p/2863316

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Office 365: Copy Education Insights Premium

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 22, 2021 Office 365 0 Comments

,The Software updates page gives admins and business decisionmakers a high-level overview of the software update status for Office devices in the organization. Future iterations of the page will include more products from the Microsoft 365 suite. The Data Lake utilized for Education Insights Premium, which stores external data from Student Information Systems (SIS), School Data Sync (SDS), and M365 Activity Data, can now be shared and copied to the customer’s own Azure Data Lake. This allows a customer to leverage all the data meant for Insights Premium for their own data exploration, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) purposes.

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Microsoft Search: History suggestions on Microsoft Search in Bing

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 22, 2021 Microsoft Search 0 Comments

Enterprise users will now get their historical searches as suggestions in the autosuggest pane on Bing and Microsoft Search in Bing.

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Communication Compliance – DLP policy recommendations (preview)

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 22, 2021 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Coming soon to public preview, Communication Compliance will appear as an option within DLP policy recommendations.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85651.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Send users Edge adoption emails

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 22, 2021 Microsoft Edge 0 Comments

We’ll be adding a feature titled “Get fast, secure browsing with Microsoft Edge”, on the Setup page in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This feature will let admins send a promotional email to encourage the adoption of Microsoft Edge. It will also provide the option to include instructions to turn on security and performance features in Microsoft Edge.
More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/microsoft-edge-feature-coming-to-microsoft-365-admin-center/ba-p/2863316

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Co-organizer Meeting Role

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 21, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Organizers will soon be able to assign the co-organizer meeting role to up to 10 specific people they invite to their meeting. Co-organizers will be granted most of the capabilities of the organizer in the meeting, including being able to access & modify the meeting options for the meeting.

Usage of the co-organizer role for a meeting will be optional. If users choose not to use the co-organizer feature, there will be no change.

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SharePoint: Updates to the site creation experience

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 21, 2021 SharePoint Online 0 Comments

We will be updating the site creation experience to make it easier for site creators to select the right type of SharePoint site, understand roles, and site permissions. Updates to this experience will include refreshed graphics, expanded site descriptions, and additional context for different permission levels in the Site permissions panel.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85683.

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Retiring Teams mobile support for devices running on Android 5,6 and 7

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 21, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

We will be retiring the Teams mobile support on iOS version 5, 6 and 7. Instead we recommend that users upgrade to newer Android builds, which is where we will continue to build new features and experiences. We will also begin encouraging users to update to the newest version of Teams if they’re running builds older than 1 year.

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Microsoft Teams: Press “Ctrl Spacebar” to speak for GCC-High and DoD

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 21, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Introducing the capability to allow meeting participants to temporarily unmute by press “Ctrl Spacebar” to speak.

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Microsoft Intune: Enroll iOS devices into Azure AD Shared device mode

Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 21, 2021 Microsoft Intune 0 Comments

Shared device mode for iOS is feature of Azure Active Directory that enables you to sign-in/sign-out a user device-wide through any supported application.

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